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From: Joel Smith <joelvsmith@earthlink.net> Subject: avoiding the mail queue, using sendmail.el instead Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 01:04:49 GMT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net is it possible to avoid the mail queue and the sendmail program and assign the mh sending mail commands (i.e. C-c C-c) to use sendmail.el? any help greatly appreciated. === From: Joel Reicher <joel@panacea.null.org> Subject: Re: avoiding the mail queue, using sendmail.el instead Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Date: 09 Dec 2003 14:25:16 +1100 Joel Smith <joelvsmith@earthlink.net> writes: > is it possible to avoid the mail queue and the sendmail program and > assign the mh sending mail commands (i.e. C-c C-c) to use sendmail.el? > any help greatly appreciated. I don't use mh-e (I assume that's the mode you're talking about), but as far as I understand it, this behaviour is not up to mh-e, since mh-e is a front end to MH and will always use MH to send. If you want to `jump the queue' (why? You'll hit a queue somewhere else anyway), then the right way to set up this behaviour is probably to reconfig&compile nmh with --with-mts=sendmail === From: Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org> Subject: Re: avoiding the mail queue, using sendmail.el instead Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Date: 09 Dec 2003 06:06:45 -0800 Organization: Frazz's Outfit > If you want to `jump the queue' (why? You'll hit a queue > somewhere else anyway), then the right way to set up > this behaviour is probably to reconfig&compile nmh with > --with-mts=sendmail =v= Emacs Mail mode actually avoids sendmail (and any queue on the local machine) by connecting to the SMTP port for the destination address. =v= There are reasons other than the queue for wanting to bypass "send" or the local MTA, and we Emacs users are used to being empowered. :^) My personal reasons are to avoid the "Sender:" field (from which spammers harvest email addresses) and to customize the "Message-ID:" field. As it happens, you can turn off "Sender:" if you can configure the MTA, but it takes a code change to post.c/spost.c to allow a custom "Message-ID:". ===